Rodríguez CVA, Quiroz MH, Badii ZMH, Solís RC

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ABSTRACT

Pesquería River is one of the most important aquatic systems in Nuevo Leon (México), therefore residual waters have caused several ecological damage. Besides, with favorable conditions to breed some tolerant species of insects and also some pathogen organisms, with some of them very important in public health and then they could represent a risk factor; because that the objective of this study was to determine genera/species of aquatic dipterans that represent a risk factor to human health. This research was carried out since May of 2001 until May of 2002, benthic net was introduced to the river in six sampling sites, later the insects collected were separated, counted and identified in the laboratory; as a results 10 families of aquatic diptera were identified, with Chironomidae, Culicidae and Psychodidae as the most significant as risk factor to human health. Chironomidae Family as dominant (99.477 %), with Chironomus plumosus as the most common specie collected, this specie has been involved in some diseases of the respiratory system; Other important family was Culicidae (0.36 %), with Anopheles pseudopunctipennis involved in the malaria transmission and four Culex species involved in the encephalitis transmission; and the third one was Psychodidae (0.075 %), with Psychoda sp as the representative.

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